Kanye West and Ellie Goulding are among the music stars who will record songs from lyrics submitted by fans for an album aimed at fighting poverty.

Global Citizen, best known for organising giant annual concerts in New York, announced the project called Metamorphoses.

The 12-track album, to be released later this year, will also include British folk band Mumford & Sons and New York-based indie rock giants The National.

Fans will have until 31 March to submit original lyrics, poems or stories. The singers will then select some and collaboratively turn them into songs.

The album will be available for "purchase" by listeners who commit to take action against global poverty, such as petitioning their governments to boost development assistance.

Image Caption:Ben Lovett started the project

"Metamorphoses has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard," said Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, who dreamed up the project with Global Citizen chief executive Hugh Evans.

"In my own life, I've experienced people trying to define me and put me in boxes and categories," he said in a statement.

"Through collaboration we can show people how those lines can be blurred and are ultimately redundant."

Fans, who can make submissions to the new project at GlobalCitizen.org/Metamorphoses, are welcome to write about any topic.

Evans said the producers would take material from around the world with the aim of making the album "a truly global tribute to our collective responsibility" to fight extreme poverty.

Further artists and an exact release date will be announced later.

Global Citizen's latest festival, held in September in Central Park, featured Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Pearl Jam.